USA Preorders Chart, 23 March 2013 - BioShock Infinite - News

There are four games in the top 40 to be in their final week, BioShock Infinite for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS), Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (3DS), and Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. As a reminder the Pro data is back up, which means that I am taking requests again for games outside the top 20.

Six games have 200,000 or more pre-orders, down from seven last week, and the top eight has 100,000 or more pre-orders, the same as last week. Two games added 20,000 or more, the same as last week and two added 10,000 or more, down from three last week.

Games in Final Week Before Launch

BioShock Infinite (X360) added 33,525 pre-orders for a grand total of 389,636. Expect first week sales in the USA at retail to be in the 450,000 to 600,000 unit range. Expect the game to sell between 1.3 million units and 1.8 million units lifetime in the US.

BioShock (X360, 2007) – 348,476 week one USA, 1,349,367 to date

BioShock II (X360, 2010) – 330,337 week one USA, 1,217,069 to date

BioShock Infinite (PS3) added 9,410 pre-orders for a grand total of 216,553. Expect first week sales in the USA at retail to be in the 300,000 to 400,000 unit range. Expect the game to sell between 600,000 units and 800,000 units lifetime in the US.

BioShock (PS3, 2008) – 27,902 week one USA, 554,362 to date

BioShock II (X360, 2010) – 132,041 week one USA, 686,764 to date

Luigi’s Mansion (3DS) added 50,451 pre-orders for a grand total of 257,137. Expect first week sales in the USA at retail to be in the 300,000 to 450,000 unit range. Expect the game to sell between 1.2 million units and 1.5 million units lifetime in the US.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (3DS) added 8,421 pre-orders for a grand total of 32,139. Expect first week sales in the USA at retail to be in the 60,000 to 100,000 unit range. Expect the game to sell between 300,000 units and 600,000 units lifetime in the US.

Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel (X360) added 2,810 pre-orders for a grand total of 27,192. Expect first week sales in the USA at retail to be in the 50,000 to 80,000 unit range. Expect the game to sell between 300,000 units and 500,000 units lifetime in the US.

Army of Two: The 40th Day (X360, 2010) – 106,293 week one USA, 481,742 to date

Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel (PS3) added 1,954 pre-orders for a grand total of 20,596. Expect first week sales in the USA at retail to be in the 35,000 to 55,000 unit range. Expect the game to sell between 200,000 units and 400,000 units lifetime in the US.

Army of Two: The 40th Day (PS3, 2010) – 64,036 week one USA, 355,551 to date

Major Performers in the U.S. – Week Ending March 23

Gears of War: Judgment (X360) sales are expected to drop to around 150,000 units in its second week on sale.

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct (X360) sales are expected to drop to around 30,000 units in its second week on sale. The PlayStation 3 version is expected to drop to around 15,000 units.

Lego City Undercover (WiiU) sales are expected to drop to around 25,000 units in its second week on sale.

Monster Hunter Tri (3DS) sales are expected to drop to around 15,000 units in its second week on sale. The Wii U version is expected to drop to around 12,000 units.

Dead Island: Riptide (X360) added 2,990 pre-orders, up from 2,536 last week, for a total of 72,109. The game is 8,000 units behind what Dead Island had at the same number of weeks before release. Dead Island: Riptide (PS3) added 2,231 pre-orders, up from 2,003 last week, for a total of 52,323. The game is five weeks away from launch in the USA, April 23, 2013.

The Last of Us (PS3) added 5,551 pre-orders, down from 6,190 last week, for a total of 210,176. The game is 60,000 pre-orders ahead of Uncharted 3 during the same number of weeks before release. The game is 12 weeks away from launch in the USA, June 14, 2013.

Notable mentions: Injustice: Gods Among Us (X360) added 45,245 pre-orders for a total of 79,428. DEFIANCE (X360) added 7,099 pre-orders for a total of 39,708. Pokémon X / Y (3DS) added 3,389 pre-orders for a total of 34,841.

Requests: Pandora’s Tower (Wii) added 1,817 pre-orders for a total of 19,834. Resident Evil: Revelations (X360) added 686 pre-orders for a total of 1,231. The PlayStation 3 version added 704 pre-orders for a total of 1,142.

If your favorite game isn't in the top 40, leave a comment requesting which game you want to see and the most requested games will be added in next week's article!

The Top 40 can be seen below or click here to go to the USA pre-orders page.

You have God of War: Ascension's 2nd week sales hugely under-tracked in the US. With the promotion GameStop had online and the fact it was the single bestselling item for 6 days straight (with the GoW Saga 2nd) there's no way it sold less than 125K week 2 in the US. You'll see when NPD data releases and GoW:A is the biggest release this month in the US, it'll beat Gears:J, Bioshock Infinite (360) and Tomb Raider (360) and anything else this month at around 700,000 units sold in March (Vgchartz estimates will be around 550,000-600,000 units).
Will Vgchartz update their numbers if NPD proves you massively wrong? Or will you simply ignore the facts and stick with massively under-tracked estimates like you did with God of War III?